I added a simple JSON decoding class to the ActionScript 3 source code page of my blog today. This is a useful base class which you can extend to use a JSON object as a data source.

The JSONDecoder class defines a simple set of methods for loading a JSON encoded object from a specific URI, decoding the result into an ArrayCollection of ActionScript Objects, and displaying any errors that may occur.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) objects are a lightweight data-interchange format which are very useful due to the fact that they are language independent. JSON objects are simple objects comprised of name / value pairs which are easy to use with any language such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, ActionScript etc.